╔═══════════ KING'S COLLEGE SEMINARY [5-Year Educational Journey]══════════════╗
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║ Preceptorship Program ║
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║ Seminary Studies ║ Thesis Research ║ Non-Levitical ║
║ (Year 1-3) ║ (Year 4) ║ Ordination ║
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║ ENTRY LEVELS: ║ Research Question: ║ DAVT (Year 5) ║
║ M1: Interlinear ║ "I help... ║ Final Phase ║
║ M2: Modalities ║ to...by..." ║ ║
║ M3: Unseen Realm ║ ║ ║
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║ SEVENS FRAMEWORK: ║ THESIS COMPONENTS: ║ GRADUATION: ║
║ 7 Mountains ║ Literature Review ║ Ordination ║
║ 7 Archetypes ║ Methodology ║ Ceremony ║
║ 7 Movements ║ Data Analysis ║ Certification ║
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║ FOURS PILLAR: ║ DEFENCE: ║ PLACEMENT: ║
║ Servant Leadership ║ Oral Presentation ║ Ministry ║
║ Malachi 4:4-6 ║ Written Submission ║ Assignment ║
║ Lion,Ox,Eagle,Man ║ Final Defence ║ ║
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Support Components & Resources
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║ Research ║ SOLE ║ Assessment ║ Student ║
║ Development ║ Learning ║ Framework ║ Services ║
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║ C-BAM System ║ Academics ║ ORCID ID ║ Municipality ║
║ Ref. Library ║ Impact Study ║ Diagnostics ║ Advisory Board ║
║ Notion Platform ║ Self-Study ║ Thesis Review ║ Logistics Team ║
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† C-BAM: Challenge-based Agile Management Framework
* SOLE: Self-organised Learning Environment with Integrated Assessment
* Assessment includes continuous evaluation and milestone achievements
Matthew 8:24-25 (KJV) 24 And he looked up, and said, "I see men as trees, walking." 25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
In this miracle, our Lord heals a man in stages. Clarity emerges swiftly after a brief period of confusion—like emerging from a fog of war, of blurred vision, of interrupted transformation. Finally, blindness gives way to restored sight.
When we find ourselves caught in this sacred disorientation, it's like standing in a familiar room where all the furniture has been rearranged. Our spiritual eyes are adjusting, much like the blind man in Mark's gospel. At first, we see "men as trees, walking" - a partial revelation that leaves us more confused than enlightened. We grasp at old paradigms, trying to force new wine into old wineskins.
Yet this holy confusion often precedes divine clarity. Like a compass needle spinning before finding true north, our initial discomfort is actually the Spirit's realignment process. What feels like loss of direction is often God's way of pivoting us toward His perfect will. We learn to trust not our first impressions but His gradual unveiling of truth.
The beauty of this process lies in its humbling nature - we must admit our partial blindness before receiving complete sight. Just as dawn doesn't break instantly but gradually transforms darkness into light, so too does our understanding unfold in stages, each revelation building upon the last until we see "every man clearly."
During our first church retreat in August 1991 at Yishun Country Club, we discussed establishing a network of home-based churches, initially in the North-East part of the island. Since then, we have grown in size and ministry focus. I want to highlight some of these developments. By studying our "roots," we can gain a clearer perspective on current evangelistic needs. We should not be daunted by the task ahead but trust that the Lord, who has led us this far, will continue to guide us until the work is done.
<aside> 🚧 The Challenge (1986)
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One of the significant challenges in gospel work is preserving the fruits of ministry, particularly in follow-up. I first faced this issue while serving in a multi-congregational church near Chinatown. My job seemed straightforward: contacting visitors to our church services and locating and assessing those who had backslid or gone missing. I was given two shoeboxes of visitor cards filled with contacts, including records of those who had left the church or gone Missing-in-Action (MIA). My role was to contact visitors, gauge their spiritual state, bring back the lost, counsel the weak, rebuke the unruly, and most importantly, “get them to the church on time!”
In those first few months, I learned many lessons, particularly about God's grace. I recall Bill (not his real name) and his wife. They were searching for a church to settle in. Both were devoted to the Lord and eager to serve Him meaningfully. It took a few months before I initially contacted them, but they soon became regular worshippers. Within a year, they left for mission work in Indonesia. Surprisingly, several months passed between his first visit and my call, yet he responded positively.
<aside> 🚧 Robbing God’s People of Initiative (1987)
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Yet something was not right. For every one that responded, many others never did and left through the church’s “big back door.” Some visitors decided not to follow Christ or refused to submit to the Word, but the high fallout rates highlighted the system’s inability to handle walk-ins. I realized this was a pastoral problem that every church needed to address, not just one for a paid worker to manage.
True enough, something had gone terribly wrong with the system as we knew it then. I had fallen into the trap of formalizing follow-up which should have been the responsibility of every member of the congregation but instead ended up at my desk. I was, in effect, robbing the ordinary church member of his initiative in reaching out to family and friends.
Soon, I felt spiritually dry instead of flourishing. I couldn't sing, pray, or laugh in church; I was weary when I should have been rejoicing in the God of my salvation. When the pastor’s wife gave me a book on “Burnout,” I realized I had exhausted my own strength and began to seek answers from heaven.
<aside> 🚧 Fathers, Not Tutors (1988)
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Toward the end of my first year, I went on a follow-up mission trip to Palawan, Philippines, to check on our brethren there. The trip was uneventful until the day before our return to Singapore. An American missionary named Norman Holmes, who had seen our banner advertising nightly gospel meetings, asked to speak with me. Though I was a stranger to him, this meeting turned out to be God's way of teaching me an important lesson.